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Our Animals

what we do

Monkey Town does a lot of great work in terms of taking in, rearing and caring for abandoned, captive-bred monkeys and are definitely worth supporting. If you have kids or are a nature-lover, then undoubtedly this is one of those visits that you can safely leave on your To Do list.

Monkey Town is often used as a haven by Cape Nature for monkeys as well as other species of animals that are rescued.

Current Monkey Town is called “home” by 26 different species of primates. Among animals, primates are on the top of the list when talking about intelligence. Despite sharing 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), humans (Homo sapiens) have much bigger brains and are as a species, much more intelligent.

The differences between our primates are enormous. The pygmy marmoset weighs less than 100 grams and is classified as the smallest species of monkey in the WORLD!

Where some chimpanzees have even been able to learn basic human sign language. Washoe, a captive female chimpanzee, was able to learn American Sign Language (ASL), with a vocabulary of 350 words.

Animals that are currently living at Monkey Town:

Monkey Town has both old world and new world monkeys from 26 different species, including:

Pygmy Marmosets

Common Marmosets

Black-eared Marmosets

Geoffroy’s Marmosets

Cotton-top Tamarins

Golden-handed Tamarins

Brown Capuchins

White-faced Capuchins

Weeper Capuchins

Saki’ Monkeys

L’hoest’s Monkey

Black Mangabeys

De Brazza’s Monkey

Mongoose Lemurs

Ring-tailed Lemurs

Black-and-white ruffed Lemurs

Common Squirrel Monkeys

Bolivian Squirrel Monkeys

Wolf’s Mona Monkey

Lion-tailed Macaques

Vervet Monkey

Chacma Baboons

Black Spider Monkey

Geoffroy’s Spider Monkeys

White-handed Gibbons

Chimpanzees

Monkey Town is also called “home” by a large variety of other animals including:

African Pygmy Hedgehogs

Tenrec’s

Meerkats

Fennec foxes

Tree squirrels

Sun conure

Umbrella cockatoo

Sulpher-crested cockatoo

Ringneck

Blue & Gold macaw

Scarlet macaw

Emu’s

Muscovy Ducks

Black swans

Egyptian Geese

Chinese Geese

Canadian Geese

Peacocks

Chickens

Alpacas

Sheep

Miniature donkeys

Goats

Cape Grysbok

Blue Duiker

Suni antelope

Leopard Tortoises (Bergskilpad)

Angulate Tortoise

Terrapin Turtles

Koi fish

Business Hours

Mondays to Sundays from 08h00 until 17h00 (last entrance into the park at 16h00)